Newcastle Fans React To Potential Signing Of Florian Lejeune

The big news today – so far – is that Newcastle have triggered the release clause of £8.7M for 26 year-old Eibar center-half Florian Lejeune.

Lejeune is one of the center-backs we have been linked with recently, but it looks like Rafa Benitez has now decided Florian is one of the center-backs he wants at Newcastle this summer.

And if we are to believe the news from Portugal over the last few days, Sporting Lisbon’s Ruben Semedo looks to be the other center-back Rafa has gone for – the 23 year-old is now valued at about £12.1M by the Lisbon club.

Good close-up shot of 6ft 3ins tall Florian Lejeune Here are some reactions to the news on Twitter:.

were linked with this player last week and he is a big strong player at 6ft 3ins and was released only last summer by Manchester City, but had an excellent first season in Spain and attracted some top clubs.

The People are reporting today that Newcastle have agreed a fee of £8.7M for Eibar center-half Florian Lejeune, after triggering the release clause in his contract at the Spanish club.

Previous reports had said that Eibar valued their player at £8.7M – now we know why.

Florian Lejeune looks a bit like Toby Alderweireld. If he plays anything like him we’ll have a top defender on our hands! ? #NUFC

Loving the fact that our defence, which has been so neglected year after year, is once again seen as a priority for Rafa to improve upon. I’ve long held the thought that it is only the failure of strengthening our back 4, that has prevented us becoming the team we could have been.

I do think rafa needs to build from the back and it is not as strong as it needs to be. On clark is the right level. Lascelles I have doubts over his pace. Yedlin quick going forward but again defensively not sure. Dummett gets stuck but I think he’s ok not great but steady. Not so much when coming forward. Hanley is not good enough. We need a better keeper. We have good ones but not a great one.

It’s all about raising the level up. Rafa knows that and it’s encouraging to see. However I doubt some of the links have any truth.

How much money does Benitez have to spend? i dont think he has as much as some of the bloggers think . Some articles are claiming he has to go for cheaper options, and he has to move players out in order to fund moves for other players. I think some people are getting carried away with some of the rumours and actually believe we have a chance. Why do bloggers still put Reina in their stating 11 when its been stated several times that he is,nt interested in joining us. Two weeks ago we were being linked with players around the 20- 25 M range, Cairney and Deeney are just two of the many that we were linked with. Now its players around 10 -15M range that we are linked with. Maybe next week it will be 5-10M.

Must admit, I know squat about this guy or Semedo but I’ll trust Rafa’s judgement. As far a Sigurdsson goes, I’m not so sure that we’d have no chance. If we slapped a bid in of £25M + Diame, I reckon that would get Swansea’s attention.

Thank God, finally we actually have a manager in place that understands that you build from the back. I hope Rafa get all the players he wants to bring in and he can start preseason training and friendlies with what he feels would be the starting 11. On another note, this Tammy thing with him talking to Brighton? Ok I get he live near Brighton but isn’t it Chelsea who says where he goes to? I mean, if I was Chelsea which manager would I feel would give the best education. Don’t get me wrong I love Chris Hughton but Rafa has way more world class experience, so surely Chelsea would want him managing this Kid.

To be fair we’ve had great keepers and protected them with poor-average defenders. I’d happily continue with Darlow/Krul/(Eliott/Woodman) with a quality back 4 in front of them. Clark has been a far better player for us than he was for Villa he works extremely well with Lascelles. RE: Lascelles, only he, Rafa and the physio’s know how much his performances were effected by his injury. Yes he had a few stinkers but who didn’t? On the whole together they were as good as anything since Albert and Peacock.

Never heard of this player but I have to trust Rafa knows best. A bit gutted if we don’t get Mangala after being linked with him so heavily. Someone earlier on here said Mangala had no pace?!!! It’s probably his biggest asset. This blog can be crazy at times!!!!

What about Wes Saunders? Big lump of a centre half. He was a bit of a figure of fun among me and my toon mad mates at school. He was ok…til he turned to a life of crime. (Got busted for shoplifting or something I think!? A pair of gloves from Marks n a Sparks ‘allegedly’…someone once said, probably)

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